5 ms·

Amazingly enough the thread about his passing [1] has 34.340 upvotes and 31.742 downvotes. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/16fjjm/aaron_shwartz_reddi

• drzaiusapelord 14y ago
  My understanding is that the system begins faking upvotes and downvotes at a certain point to fool spammers.
  • clicks 14y ago
    Which is still curious, because it's common knowledge at this point that the numbers are fudged. Why even display it at this point? It serves nothing but to cause confusion.
    • jlgreco 14y ago
      Even though people know it's fake, I am sure it still plays an important role in gamification.
    • sp332 14y ago
      The difference between upvotes and downvotes is right, but the absolute numbers are random.